Kevin Chen

Kevin Chen

Boston, MA, United States

Member since September 1, 2015

Kevin is a hacker, a scientist, a researcher, and a developer. He specializes in full-stack end-to-end projects and he's passionate about creating systems and solving problems. He has designed, implemented, and iterated on projects from end-to-end; working with iOS apps, on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Google Glass), languages (Python, JavaScript, ES6), and concepts (research, UI/UX, algorithms).

...work I've done was designing a solution to a low-fidelity, mobile, prototyping problem which ended with a trip to Seoul to present my findings.

Employment

Researcher

Delta Lab

2013 - PRESENT

Conceived and designed "Remote Paper Prototype Testing" (RPPT); a research project improving low fidelity paper prototyping methods for modern mobile applications. Developed cross-platform video streaming applications (e.g., iOS, Glass, and web); which tracked and displayed all gesture information from the iOS application, and presented my findings at CHI 2015.

Prototyped Oculus interactions; developed a basic application to place user in Google Street View perspective and allow moving around.

Developed profile management features on course/lab features; implemented a flexible project page manager.

Developed "Yo*" which is a location-based mobile game in which players attempt to form a shape in real life using their GPS coordinates.

Began the design process for a "Collective Experience API," which runs the gamut from abstracting out easily understandable methods to simplifying real-time applications that connect specific-user bases.

I created this website for myself, basically from scratch, to showcase my projects, experiences, and play around with various front-end widgets. More details, about each project I've worked on, can be found there.

Hackathon Project, Summer 2015. I won the Chegg Young Innovator Award at CHIMEHACK 2.

This project is a demo which enables users (in this case, girls and women) to instantly and discretely react to dangerous situations via quick gestures without unlocking their phone.

Breadcrumbs (Development)

This is an online shopping companion that automatically logs all products seen as the user browses (via a Chrome extension). It automatically sorts and categorizes products so users never have to worry about forgetting or losing information.